Abstract:

Privacy education, which is more commonly expressed as sexual education today, can be defined as the education that an individual should receive to learn the requirements and responsibilities regarding their gender as a woman or a man. The privacy education demanded by society; may differ according to many variables such as time, cultural background, family, geography. This study aimed to evaluate privacy education in Turkey in line with the opinions of school principals. The study group was determined by a simple random sampling technique and consisted of 40 school principals working in various public schools in Turkey. This study was designed according to the phenomenological approach, one of the qualitative research methods. The research data were analyzed by content analysis technique, and the researchers created thematic codes. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used to collect data. Research data were collected from online interviews with school principals through the questions in the interview form. The findings obtained in the study are presented in tables and figures. Considering the findings of the study, it can be said that many remarkable results have been achieved, such as explaining privacy education with the theme of sexual awareness, privacy education in schools is necessary because it provides a safe life opportunity for the individual, and studies on privacy education in schools have increased in recent years in order to increase individual awareness.

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